CHAP. 94.—An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 32 of the Game, Inland Fish
and Dog Code of Virginia, as amended, relating to fees for certain permits.

[H 161]
Approved February 29, 1944

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section thirty-two of the Game, Inland Fish and Dog Code
of Virginia, as amended, be amended and re-enacted, as follows:

Section 32. Miscellaneous permits required.—It shall be unlawful
o exercise the privileges of the permits hereinafter provided without
irst having obtained a permit to do so. Any person or firm convicted of
such violation shall pay a fine of not more than one hundred dollars and
the permit shall be revoked. The issuance of all of the permits provided
by this section shall be within the discretion of the Commission and under
such regulations as it may prescribe, including such reports as it may
require. The permit shall run by the fiscal year, July first to June thir-
eth, inclusive.

Breeding pheasants.—The fee for a permit to breed pheasants for
sale shall be five dollars; provided that permits may be issued free to
individuals raising fifty birds or less annually.

Fur farming.—The fee for a permit to breed fur-bearing animals for
the sale of the furs or carcasses shall be five dollars.

Breeding fish.—The fee for a permit to breed and raise rainbow trout
for sale from a privately owned hatchery where the same are artificially
raised shall be five dollars.

Taxidermy.—The fee for a permit to stuff or mount birds or animals,
or parts thereof, for compensation or for sale shall be five dollars.

Netting fish—The fee for a permit to net fish in inland waters, for
private table use and not for sale, shall be as follows: county dip net,
gill net or byke net, one dollar each; haul seine, two dollars and fifty
cents; minnow haul seine to catch minnows for sale, except from private
waters, two dollars and fifty cents; haul seines to catch shad, herring and
mullet, or suckers, for sale, five dollars.

Holding wild birds and animals.—The fee for a permit to hold wild
birds and animals in captivity for exhibition or advertising purposes shall
be five dollars; provided that the Commission may issue free permits
to landowners to capture and hold wild birds and animals for breeding
and liberation to increase the supply, which shall be liberated when and
as directed by the Commission.

Breeding game birds and game animals.—The fee for a permit to
breed and raise wild game birds and wild game animals, which may be
sold for propagation or restocking purposes, shall be five dollars.

Collecting specimens.—There shall be no charge for a permit to col-
lect specimens of wild birds, their nests, eggs or young, in limited quan-
tity, for scientific or museum purposes. Such permits may only be issued
to persons of known scientific attainment in arnithology, a teacher of
arnithology, or the agent of a public museum.

The Commission may authorize the capture of breeding stock for fur
farmers and game and fish breeders in such manner as it may determine,
which shall not be liberated or disposed of except as directed by the Com-
mission. The permits provided for in this section may be obtained from
the Commission except that county dip net permits shall be sold by clerks
and agents. All acts, general or special, in conflict with the provisions
hereof, and all amendments thereto, are hereby repealed. The provisions
hereof shall become effective July first, nineteen hundred thirty-six.